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You don't fight for peace sister,' Nahara told me, 'You embrace it.

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Fight
Told
Fighting
Peace
Sister
Embrace

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